Re: gperf: new prerequisite

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:25:31PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
>      
>      > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:06:31PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      >      +        * gperf 3.0.1 (or later).
>      >      +
>      >
>      > This should go into README, not README.CVS, since it's required when
>      > building from the tarball.
>      
>      Are you sure?  I'm pretty sure that, if so, that's a bug in
>      iconv_open: Bruno Haible was just saying on bug-gnulib how those
>      files *do* get distributed:
>
> Well try it for yourself. If I mv /usr/bin/gperf /usr/bin/_gperf, then
> I get:
>
> $ make
> make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/Scratch/jmd/pspp-confidence-bug'
> Making all in gl
> make[2]: Entering directory `/Scratch/jmd/pspp-confidence-bug/gl'
> gperf -m 10 ./iconv_open-aix.gperf > iconv_open-aix.h-t
> /bin/sh: gperf: command not found

I'm not seeing that behavior.  The following never tries to run
gperf here:
        make dist
        tar xzf pspp-0.4.3.tar.gz
        cd pspp-0.4.3
        mkdir _build
        cd _build
        ../configure
        make
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